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Frontline aired a documentary on North Korea this past summer, part of which followed a defector returning to the border between North Korea and China to smuggle thumb drives, laptops, DVDs, and radios into North Korea.

On Thursday, a doctor in New York City was confirmed to have the deadly Ebola virus after having returned from treating Ebola patients in the West African nation of Guinea, and on Friday, another healthcare worker in New Jersey was stopped at Newark airport with a fever and was being tested for E

Jeffrey Fowle, 56, had been detained in North Korea since May and was abruptly released this week. The White House and State Department made the announcement on Tuesday that Fowle had been flown out of the isolated nation by a U.S.

On Tuesday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife announced that they are donating $25 million to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention foundation to fight the Ebola crisis that has killed over 4,000 in West Africa.

U.S. citizens who refuse to undergo the new screenings for Ebola that will soon be implemented at five major U.S. airports could find themselves being held in quarantine for up to three weeks, and non-citizens who refuse the screenings may be quarantined or turned away from U.S. soil by U.S.

On Friday, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo revealed that he and his staff have been the recipients of death threats from the Islamic State in Iran and Syria, the terrorist organization more popularly referred to as ISIS.

During an interview that aired late Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes", FBI Director James Comey said that the United States is preparing for an imminent terrorist attack, noting that the Khorasan Group, an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, may still be devising a plan to hit the U.S.